Not fifteen steps from the Aerobus Portal I spotted my old friend and cohort, Dr. Gregory S. Medley, who I had not seen since our days encamped in the jungles for the Zoological Ecology Corps!
A mad scientist and inventor, my chum had, apparently, taken to the seas in the intervening years.
Although I had not noticed it before, I now began to see a
resemblance between my old colleague and renderings I had
seen overseas of the infamous rogue Majarajah, Captain
Nemo!
(Surely this, though, was mere fancy brought on by our innumerable toasts of his Navy ration rum).
Apparently, my friend explains, Phineas Fogg is in town. Another stroke of luck! He has banded together with his Legion Fantastique for a Mad Scientist convention.
My first day out, and such providence! My mind was swimming and distracted with happy, rum-addled notions as I walked back through the Tenderloin, 6th and Mission, and the Projects on my way home to the airship. As always, the happy denizens were cheerful and polite!
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